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Durian Fruit, Borneo, Indonesia, 1997

Photo: Close up of a cut-open durian fruit

A wild durian fruit from the rain forests of Borneo is cut open, its vivid red flesh exposed. Wild durian has a spiny green exterior, emits an infamous rotting stench, and is mainly eaten by birds.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Borneo’s Strangler Fig Trees," April 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Tim Laman

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